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Calculating the Social Cost of Illicit Drugs

Calculating the Social Cost of Illicit Drugs PDF Author: Pierre Kopp
Publisher: Council of Europe
ISBN: 9789287147349
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Book Description
Social cost estimates are potentially a valuable source of informing policy makers on the impact of prevention, treatment and law enforcement strategies. However, estimating the social costs of illegal drug use poses a methodological challenge, given the difficulty of quantifying the link between drugs and their negative consequences and in assigning a monetary value to items that do not have market value. This study presents methodological guidance on developing indicators to calculate the social cost of drug abuse, mainly through a "cost-of-illness" approach. The document also contains two case studies of research projects in France that have applied a social-cost analysis to the use of alcohol and tobacco, and to illicit drugs.